Never before has the importance of local manufacturing been more felt than now with the global pandemic throwing the international supply chain out of gear.
Something that policymakers are realising now – the important of local manufacturing to the economy – has been known to the Brisbane-based Everhard Industries for 95 years. The sudden disruption to international supply chains triggered by COVID-19 highlighted the strategic need to have a strong local manufacturing base.
Everhard chair Sue Boyce is delighted with the Australian Government’s renewed focus on manufacturing. Speaking to INQueensland, she said, “Twenty years ago, to be a manufacturer was to be very boring and tedious, so last century. People are now realising that manufacturing covers everything from vaccines to septic tanks, which is what we do.”